Denis Goldberg: celebrated stalwart who said 'up yours' to tyranny
A freedom fighter sometimes called the forgotten man of the Rivonia trial, Denis Goldberg, has died after a lifetime spent working against racism and oppression at huge personal cost
03 May 2020 - 00:00
Denis Goldberg, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 87, spent 22 years in prison after being sentenced at the Rivonia trial on June 12 1964 to four life terms under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for “campaigning to overthrow the government by violent revolution and for assisting an armed invasion of the country by foreign troops”. ..
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